Original Option??? Dash gauge clock...

[texascowboy593]

Check this out... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/67-72...spagenameZWDVW Is it original or not...Rare???

[jakeslim]

not. Surprised they did not list the bezel as a rare blue one.

[Paul M]

nah..has the vacuum gauge lens on it still.

[oscareltemblo]

Fake they didn't even try to clean the vacume white paint off lol.

[Longhorn Man]

no such animal.

[texascowboy593]

Didn't think it was. I hadn't seen a clock of any kind in the vacuum gauge spot, not a bad idea...

[mrein3]

I can't find a picture on this PC but I did this swap myself. The clock came out of a mid-80s suburban.
The three lines on the back of the lens in front of the open hole rub off with plastic polish and a little elbow grease.

I learned on this board how to make the hole for the adjustment knob. Figure out where the hole needs to go, heat a nail, then make the hole in the plastic with the heated nail.

The clock I got at the junk yard says "Quartz". It is VERY accurate.

[cstanley]

clock was an option, in one of those locations (vac or temp) but that ain't no OE clock!

[Longhorn Man]

There was no clock option, not acording to GM anyways.

[cstanley]

my bad, i thought i'd seen it somewhere with option code. guess not.

[mrein3]

For what its worth...
I found a picture on this PC of my tach cluster.

I bought a factory tach dash off the parts board here right before the great factory tachs suck debate. Since my engine is fairly new and since I had an extra gauge, not tach cluster sitting around, I made a aftermarket tach, mid-80s clock, gauge cluster.

The picture is of the woodgrain bezel. I later swapped it out for a black one. Like I said above the quartz clock is very accurate but it is loud! I can hear it ticking when I open the service door to the shed.


***No factory tach clusters were harmed during the creating of this cluster. I used an extra cluster I bought, minus the odometer, at a swap for $1. I used the factory tach tin as a template to cut holes in my extra non-tach tin. I used the tach printed circut for the hole for the tach "stick out" and for the wires to run through.

[Rod]

Thats a plain lens...not even a vacuum or air lens..just a normal lens that was measnt for the full gauge package.

[mrein3]

Originally Posted by Rod

Thats a plain lens...not even a vacuum or air lens..just a normal lens that was measnt for the full gauge package.

If you are referring to the cluster I posted, that is a full gauge cluster (full gauges minus the tach) lens.

I used plastic polish to remove the lines off of the open hole where the clock now resides. I polished the lines off the empty tach hole. And I used the heated nail trick to make a hole for the clock adjuster.

[70c10]

I use the same type clock as mrein3. The quartz is very accurate. You can also use camaro clocks or truck clocks prior to 81' but they have "contact points" inside instead of the quartz movement.

[Chevrolet4x4s]

Originally Posted by mrein3

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The clock I got at the junk yard says "Quartz". It is VERY accurate.

Yeah you got one of the accurate ones mine also keeps perfect time...........if I'm not mistaken a rare option for a Chevy pickup a clock that actually keeps time.
Shane